Happy V Day!

Hello Fam!
Happy Valentine's Day. The posts seem to be dropping off, but hopefully you are all still working on your fitness. I'm routing for you!

Matt & I went snow shoeing again this weekend. His friend Joe came with us and injured his knee...so it was a short hike, but still a beautiful, sunny mountain day.

Here's our trek from last weekend:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67072533

I pumped some iron at the gym today after a 37 minute run around town. It was 60+ degrees and lovely. Much nicer than last week's -10 temps.

Miss you all!

GREAT news

So this will be a short post.. but I got weighed and measured today after my workout. I was sweating bullets (and not from the workout!)

The polls are in and the results have been tallied (drum roll)

I've lost over 7 inches all over my body! 2 on my waste alone! The rest was on my arms, butt and legs. Also, I've lost 8 lbs and the 7th had been one month. This is the best reward I could ask for. I've been working so hard, so its nice to see tangible results.

Thought i'd share with my thistlethwaite family support group :) I celebrated with American Idol and a small glass of red wine and a hersheys kiss. Oh the small pleasures in life...

Winter Fun

Last weekend we got a bunch of snow in Denver. It was fluffy, beautiful snow. Too bad Denver has no sledding hills. Matt & I decided to enjoy the great outdoors by running around City Park:
The snow made a nice crunching noise. We like our neighborhoods because of the nice parks nearby for running. I still miss Green Lake in Seattle though.

Then on Super Bowl Sunday, which is 4 yrs exactly after Matt and I met, we drove out to Rocky Mountain National Park for a snowshoeing excursion. I gave Matt a GPS watch and he always tracks our runs/hikes, so I will post that link soon. We snowshoe'd about 5 miles on Cub Trail. We also saw about 100 elk having lunch. It was a beautiful day in the Rockies.

Tonight I have been running on the La Quinta treadmill to Glee. Looking forward to running outside again when it's not negative 5 degrees! Burrrrr!

Fitness thought of the day: some exercise is better than none. Even 5-10 minutes of cardio is better than sitting on a chair at La Quinta...or anywhere else.

FALLING ON THE BANDWAGGON

HEY PEOPLE!

None of you have posted in a while and Im here to make sure you didnt fall of our this'll waite fitness bandwaggon. Dad.. whats up? How are you doing with your exercises? You used to be king of blogging and now we hardly hear a peep from you! Mooch- youre in jail, so i understand why you dont write so much. KateThwaite- hows the running/yogaing/pilatesing going??

I need updates people! Its hardly even February so there is no excuse for falling off yet! Keep your eyes on the prize, and BLOG!

I grazed a little on forbidden food at the superbowl party, but besides that I am on track! Except last week the scale said I gained 2 lbs, but that is impossible because I have been counting everything I eat and working out everyday.. which means Im gaining more muscle! My clothes are fitting better and people are asking me for my 'secret'. Little do they know I dont have one haha.

Love you all. Just trying to jumpstart yalls' motivation again.

A Dance Party Night

Hi Fam!  I was just reading posts & thinking, hmm.. no new post??  Oh wait, I'M SUPPOSED TO POST.  Right!!  So I didn't make it to the gym tonight so I have alternative plans: dance party!

Just hung some sheets over my windows (in case anyone is outside & trying to blackmail me...really?  no) so now i can bust some moves in the privacy of my living rm.  Funny thing about me is that I like exercising at night...  Mornings are ok, afternoons are awful but evenings?  Whew!  Yes, please!

Dance party time!

PS I last ran on Monday at the Community Center.  A good run! "Hills" at 4.5 and 3 minutes of 6.8 mph.

ColumbICE

Well as promised.. it was sooo icey this morning. It took me a while just to chisel out my car (thank goodness I have a wonderful car scraper in a fleecey glove, courtesy of McMooch) But I got to work just fine. Although I wish like schoools, work can have a snow/ice day! Oh to be young again...

Everythings great on the fitness side. Its becoming second nature to me to make healthy decisions. I had my last workout with my current trainer last night, and boy she had no mercy on me. We did lower body and I felt like my legs were going to give out. She showed me on a couple leg mahcines how if you just turn your feet out or in.. it works a whole different group of muscles. So we would do 3 sets of 10 on the machine with different leg positions, squat jumps then wall sits. We did this whole combination 3 times... oww chee wa wa. But after, as usual, I felt accomplished and great. A half hour more of ellipitcal, a protein shake and a shower later, I was home happily watching the Bachelor in my great robe (thanks dad again!)

love you all.. keep up the good work. I love our little motivation blog
Dad I got your email, and I will be emailing you shortly :)